Overall C as a measure of discrimination in survival analysis: Model specific population value and confidence interval estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2109-2123

  Penciana, Michael J ^a   D'Agostino, Ralph B ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Concordance; Discrimation; Kendall's ; Performance; ROC; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL RATE;

COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HAWAII; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3242770671     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1802     Document Type: Article

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